Make a checkbox checked based on a condition?

Rails
1

I have a series of checkboxes in a form generated as follows:

<% for user in @active_users %>

<%= user.firstname + " " + user.surname%> <%= check_box 'assigned_tasks', 'user_id', {:index => user.id}, user.id, nil %>

<% end %>

I’d like to have one of them selected when user.id is equal to the value
of the logged in user, stored in session[:user_id]

How do I do that?

thx
N.

2

It’s a little obscure but you can find some general suggestions here:
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#M000394

I remember having a hell of a time doing the same thing but I don’t
remember my solution.

3

I’ve just had to do something similar and did this (though I have to
say, I’m not wild about it - seems a pretty messy way to do it):

<% for c in @categories %>
<%= check_box(“category”, c.id, (@selected_categories.include?© ?
{:checked => ‘checked’} : {:checked => false} )) %> <%= c.name %>
<% end %>

Basically, this was to allow an edit of an entry which was a member of a
number of categories, with @selected_categories being the categories the
entry is currently a member of. the bit in parentheses tests whether the
category is included in @selected_categories, if so it returns :checked
=> ‘checked’, otherwise {:checked => false}

However, this feels a bit like a hack to me, and there’s got to be a
better way. Hope this helps in the meantime.

4

This worked for me with one minor change. The checkbox is unchecked by
default so the option parameter condition can be written more simply as:

(@selected_categories.include?© && {:checked => ‘checked’})

Chris T wrote:

I’ve just had to do something similar and did this (though I have to
say, I’m not wild about it - seems a pretty messy way to do it):